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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcupdate.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcupdate.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c index afd21d17c08..f3240e98792 100644 --- a/kernel/rcupdate.c +++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c @@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ static int rcuhead_fixup_free(void *addr, enum debug_obj_state state) * Ensure that queued callbacks are all executed. * If we detect that we are nested in a RCU read-side critical * section, we should simply fail, otherwise we would deadlock. + * Note that the machinery to reliably determine whether + * or not we are in an RCU read-side critical section + * exists only in the preemptible RCU implementations + * (TINY_PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU), which is why + * DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD is disallowed if !PREEMPT. */ if (rcu_preempt_depth() != 0 || preempt_count() != 0 || irqs_disabled()) { |